After the pipeline got shot down, it got me thinking about our electrical grid. If they managed to sit it down for just a few weeks, the damage and loss of life would be catastrophic. Why on earth are these systems even accessable to anyone outside this country?
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LOL that’s fucking nothing. There’s a box I pass by everyday on the highway when I go to work that controls the entire WECC electrical grid. It is locked behind a chainwire fence and a padlock. All I need is some snippers and I could flip a switch shutting down power for every person in British Columbia, Alberta, Washington, Oregon, Montana, Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, California, and parts of Baja California, Texas, South Dakota, and Nebraska. At least 150 million people. You remember that guy who blew up an RV on Christmas in Nashville? He made everyone in Dixie lose their internet and cellphone services for nearly a week. Russia hacked a pipeline and made everyone go without gasoline for around the same amount of time. The US is weak and vulnerable. Our infrastructure is dated at best. Our nukes run on floppy disks. Any mod-kitty or terrorist group with a membership above 2 could literally destroy the world or at the very least destroy every luxury and commodity necessary for our civilization to exist as it does now with a community college course in programming. You are foolish not to be a tinfoil hat prepper with a fallout shelter straight out of the creative minds of Interplay Entertainment.
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